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- <h1>The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) Commentary [v0.3]</h1>
+ <h1>The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) Commentary [v0.4]</h1>
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<strong>Manuel M. T. Chakravarty</strong><br>
<strong>Simon Marlow</strong><br>
+ <strong>Simon Peyton Jones</strong><br>
<strong>Reuben Thomas</strong><br>
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<a
href="http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/ghc/compiler/HsVersions.h"><code>HsVersions.h</code></a>.
+ <h2>Scheduling Optimisations Phases</h2>
+ <p>
+ GHC has a large variety of optimisations at its disposal, many of which
+ have subtle interdependencies. The overall plan for program
+ optimisation is fixed in <a
+ href="http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/ghc/compiler/main/DriverState.hs"><code>DriverState.hs</code></a>.
+ First of all, there is the variable <code>hsc_minusNoO_flags</code> that
+ determines the <code>-f</code> options that you get without
+ <code>-O</code> (aka optimisation level 0) as well as
+ <code>hsc_minusO_flags</code> and <code>hsc_minusO2_flags</code> for
+ <code>-O</code> and <code>-O2</code>.
+ <p>
+ However, most of the strategic decisions about optimisations on the
+ intermediate language Core are encoded in the value produced by
+ <code>buildCoreToDo</code>, which is a list with elements of type
+ <code>CoreToDo</code>. Each element of this list specifies one step in
+ the sequence of core optimisations executed by the <a
+ href="simplifier.html">Mighty Simplifier</a>. The type
+ <code>CoreToDo</code> is defined in <a
+ href="http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/ghc/compiler/main/CmdLineOpts.lhs"><code>CmdLineOpts.lhs</code></a>.
+ The actual execution of the optimisation plan produced by
+ <code>buildCoreToDo</code> is performed by <a
+ href="http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/ghc/compiler/simplCore/SimplCore.lhs"><code>SimpleCore</code></a><code>.doCorePasses</code>.
+ Core optimisation plans consist of a number of simplification phases
+ (currently, three for optimisation levels of 1 or higher) with
+ decreasing phase numbers (the lowest, corresponding to the last phase,
+ namely 0). Before and after these phases, optimisations such as
+ specialisation, let floating, worker/wrapper, and so on are executed.
+ The sequence of phases is such that the synergistic effect of the phases
+ is maximised -- however, this is a fairly fragile arrangement.
+ <p>
+ There is a similar construction for optimisations on STG level stored in
+ the variable <code>buildStgToDo :: [StgToDo]</code>. However, this is a
+ lot less complex than the arrangement for Core optimisations.
+
<h2>Linking the <code>RTS</code> and <code>libHSstd</code></h2>
<p>
Since the RTS and HSstd refer to each other, there is a Cunning
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